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Housewife, New Family and the Home of Japanese Modern Society

Housewife, New Family and the Home of Japanese Modern Society , 1 (2005), 131-37. ATSUKO HANDA Key words Japanese society; nuclear family; traditional roles; work and home; crisis of family structure The nuclear family in the Taish era (1912-1926) A leading Japanese historian, Takeuchi Y, explains that in 1914 Tokyo Station was opened and the neighbouring area was transfigured into a business centre. The movement of urbanisation gradually spread from the centre to the suburbs in Tokyo. Consequently, the percentage of white-collar workers in Tokyo reached more than 20 percent early in the Taish era.1 Tokyo Station in 1918 Source: Tsunashima Kamekichi, Tokyo teisha-ba no zu. Copied from Nichiroku nijusseiki: 1914, p. 2. Such change of industrial structure led to the establishment of a new family system ­ the nuclear family. Nuclear family is composed of a couple and their unmarried children. The small family was not recognised in pre-modern agricultural society. Thus, the nuclear family is regarded as one of the characteristics of modernity. In Ja1. Takeuchi Y, Risshin shusse shugi: Kindai nihon no roman to yokub [The Policy of Rising up in the World: Romance and Desire of Modern Japan] (Tokyo: NHK Library, 1997), p. 213. A Naturalist author, Tayama Katai also explains the enormous change http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdisciplinary Research Brill

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Brill
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© Copyright 2015 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1930-6253
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2375-1606
DOI
10.1163/23751606-00101009
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, 1 (2005), 131-37. ATSUKO HANDA Key words Japanese society; nuclear family; traditional roles; work and home; crisis of family structure The nuclear family in the Taish era (1912-1926) A leading Japanese historian, Takeuchi Y, explains that in 1914 Tokyo Station was opened and the neighbouring area was transfigured into a business centre. The movement of urbanisation gradually spread from the centre to the suburbs in Tokyo. Consequently, the percentage of white-collar workers in Tokyo reached more than 20 percent early in the Taish era.1 Tokyo Station in 1918 Source: Tsunashima Kamekichi, Tokyo teisha-ba no zu. Copied from Nichiroku nijusseiki: 1914, p. 2. Such change of industrial structure led to the establishment of a new family system ­ the nuclear family. Nuclear family is composed of a couple and their unmarried children. The small family was not recognised in pre-modern agricultural society. Thus, the nuclear family is regarded as one of the characteristics of modernity. In Ja1. Takeuchi Y, Risshin shusse shugi: Kindai nihon no roman to yokub [The Policy of Rising up in the World: Romance and Desire of Modern Japan] (Tokyo: NHK Library, 1997), p. 213. A Naturalist author, Tayama Katai also explains the enormous change

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Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdisciplinary ResearchBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2005

Keywords: Japanese society; nuclear family; traditional roles; work and home; crisis of family structure

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